In response to the incident, the police have registered a case against the unidentified perpetrators and have begun a search to locate those responsible for the attack.

According to police sources, the monument was built a few years ago by the Communication and Works (C&W) Department, located near the historic Miri Fort.

In a similar development, Sindh’s caretaker Minister of Culture and Sports Dr Junaid Ali Shah said that the Culture, Tourism & Antiquities Department of Sindh discovered the whereabouts of the historic Kot Diji Fort’s lost six cannons. The 300-year-old cannons went missing 30 years ago from the historic fort situated in Sindh’s Khairpur district.

Similarly, in 2013, militants launched a hand grenade attack on the Quaid-e-Azam residency in Ziarat during the early hours of Saturday, causing significant damage to the historical site where Pakistan’s founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, spent his final days. In this, a police officer was killed with all memorial chairs, beds, and historic photographs of the founder were burnt to the ground in the resulting fire.

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